Hey there, I’m
Akash Hamirwasia.
I build innovative products on the web keeping design in mind. I’m currently in my final year of undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering.
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About Me
Hi! I’m Akash, a creative 22-year-old who loves building products with code.
Since then, I have been working on improving my skills in Web development. I decided to dip my feet in web development because I wanted to build products that were easily accessible to anyone on any device. It always motivates me when I hear how my project helped someone solve their problem.
Right now, I am in my final year at PES University doing an undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering. I can’t stop talking about front-end development and user interface design these days!
Experience
- Software Development Engineer @ Razorpay
July 2022 — Now
Software Development Engineering InternJanuary 2022 — July 2022
- Software Engineering Intern @ Akamai Technologies
May 2021 — July 2021
- Frontend Engineering Intern @ smallcase
May 2020 — August 2020
- Project Intern @ PES Innovation Lab
June 2019 — July 2019
My Skills
I constantly learn new and exciting concepts in computer science and web development. I try applying these concepts to solve real-world problems. Few technologies I enjoy working with:
- TypeScript
- HTML, CSS
- React, Next.js
- Vue
- Node.js
- Python
- Prisma
- Firebase
My Projects
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Blaze
A peer-to-peer file-sharing web app I built to solve a problem I faced while transferring files from my phone to my laptop without having to upload files to a cloud account or download specific file-sharing apps.
Blaze became the #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt and gets about 900 weekly views. DigitalOcean is sponsoring the infrastructure for this project. Technologies I learned while building Blaze:
- Preact
- WebSockets
- WebTorrent
- Express
- Docker
- DigitalOcean
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Pigmnts
A color palette generator from an image I built to learn the Rust programming language. Building Pigmnts also introduced me to various clustering algorithms and how WebAssembly works at a fundamental level.
Pigmnts is available both as a CLI tool and a library for Rust and JavaScript using WebAssembly. It is being used by Turtlewig and UnPalette in their products.
- Rust
- Web Assembly
- CLI development
- K-Means++
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UnTab
A productivity tool I built to manage a lot of tabs open on our browser. UnTab provides a beautiful search interface to search tabs, bookmarks, history and also perform quick actions with just a few keystrokes.
I built UnTab in the FOSS Hack 2020 and it was one of the winning projects. UnTab is available as an extension for both Chrome and Firefox. UnTab has a powerful themes and plugins API that makes it possible for anyone to extend UnTab’s feature set.
- Svelte
- Fuse.js
- Rollup
- Browser Extension
- Framer Motion
- Tailwind CSS
Talks & Workshops
I conduct talks and workshops to share my experience in different fields with the community and network with like-minded peers. This quote keeps me going — “The best way to learn is to teach”.
Blog
I document my learnings from building projects on my blog with the hope that it will help fellow curious developers like me. Though it takes time to write these blogs, I always come out with more understanding of the topic than I originally started with.
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Let’s get in touch
I’m open to hearing about new opportunities. Feel free to reach out to me if you have a question, or just want to say hi!
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